Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in Arkansas, reaching their highest point in over a decade, the Arkansas Department of ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), and the University of São ...

tuberculosis. Without treatment, TB can cause several potentially life threatening complications, such as pneumonia. Learn more about the long-term health complications caused by untreated TB ...

Children living in high tuberculosis (TB) burden areas are at a higher risk of developing TB by the age of 10.

A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is the first birth cohort study to assess TB infection and active TB disease during children’s first decade of life in high-burden ...

Ten percent of children in high-burden tuberculosis (TB) settings may develop the disease by the age of ten. This is ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood.

The older the patient with pneumonia, the more likely resolution of radiographic infiltrates is to be delayed, especially if other comorbid illnesses are present. If both symptomatic and ...

The Arkansas Department of Health is reporting tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise in Arkansas for adult and pediatric populations. ADH has recorded over 100 cases in the state as ...

The CDC says bacterial pneumonia cases have increased in the last six months. Bacterial pneumonia cases are on the rise in young children, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...

S aureus, Moraxella catarrhalis, Legionella species, Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... suggest that more than 50% of community-acquired pneumonia occurs in individuals with impaired host defenses.